Making Rush’s “skulls full of mush” a reality in order to manipulate the masses, IMO.
All I know is that when some educator or ‘scientist’ comes along and says we HAVE to be able to do something multiple different ways, I wonder why, for what purpose. I've always believed in the Occam’s Razor principle, and would also apply that to methodology.
Why are they always screwing with Math? Even when I was in school a hundred years ago. We had “new” math. I mean it’s a rhetorical question. They want our kids to be as dumb as possible so the left can take over this once great country.
Kids need to learn this type of math so that as adults they can conceptualize such things as $17 trillion of debt being a good thing.
If you’re sending your kids to a government school, you’re part of the problem. You either care enough about your kids to put them in a privately run and funded school where they won’t be exposed to this and all of the other dangers or you don’t. Quit bitching and take responsibility for your kid’s education.
Parents need to attack Common Core as child abuse and demand that politicians, school administrators, and teachers who try to implement Common Core on children are put on nationwide lists of child abusers.
Revolt!
And after 12 years of this junk, they still won’t be able to make change for your McMeal.
Time to bring back the abacus.
“In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school boards.” - Mark Twain
This is the design. To divide parents from their children, to prevent the prior generation from passing on knowledge. It’s diabolical and very Brave New Worldish.
How sad. There is a very easy solution to grade school math that will work for over 90% of students. MEMORIZE your multiplication facts from 0x0 up to 12x12. Once you have those memorized, everything up to Geometry is doable.
There was a video explaining how 32-12 would be solved with Common Core math. The next generation of kids are going to be unable to function outside school if that is the only method they are taught.
to separate children from their parents
I was watching some poor little girl try to demonstrate a simple multiplication problem to her mom. The cc method took her about 15 minutes and she got it wrong. The regular way took her about two minutes and she got it right. Watching the girl draw boxes and dots reminded me of permutation matrices from my college days, except those make sense.
I have ZERO SYMPATHY for parents of kids trying to learn this crap. Those parents simply FAILED at their primary job, which is to make sure their kids get a useful education. The crap going on in math has DECADES of history behind it. Common Core is just the latest incarnation.
Thankfully, there are no FREEPERS that would ever trust government schools to teach their kids something as important as math, since we know that will never happen. Right?